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The Algonquian languages ( / ælˈɡɒŋk ( w) iən / al-GONG-k (w)ee-ən; [ 1] also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin ...
Algonquin is the language for which the entire Algonquian language subgroup is named; the similarity among the names often causes considerable confusion. Like many Native American languages, it is strongly verb-based, with most meaning being incorporated into verbs instead of using separate words for prepositions, tense, etc.
The Algic languages (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) [1] [2] are an indigenous language family of North America. Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian subfamily, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada. The other Algic languages are the Yurok and Wiyot of northwestern California ...
from the extinct American Indian Algonquian languages of southeastern New England, Narragansett and Massachusett. Comparative linguistic data are selected from the Pequot language, Ojibway, Abenaki or Wampano for purposes of comparison, or when existing terms for biological species were not recorded by the missionaries documenting the Natick-
Central Algonquian peoples. Kickapoo (Kikapú, Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi): originally from southeast Michigan and Wisconsin United States; now in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States; Coahuila, Mexico. Peoria (Illiniwek), formerly Illinois now Oklahoma. Menominee (kāēyas-mamāceqtaw) of Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, United States.
The most noteworthy difference between them has to do with the treatment of vowels. Chapter 3 introduces fundamental concepts of morphosyntax in Algonquian languages and provides a discussion of derivational morphology, including many examples illustrating the components of lexical structure in Potawatomi.
Regrettably, A Key contains only about 2,100 lines of Algonquian, with 2-3 “words” per line, on average, containing about 820 verbs, based on about 320 verb roots or stems (Hagenau, 1962)3. A Key contains several interrelated Algonquian languages/dialects including Coweset, Nipmuck, Abenaki, Pequot, &c (see Ives Goddard, 1996).
Algonquin territory circa 1800 in green. The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. [1] Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree ), Mississaugas, and Nipissing ...